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The L.M.S. Railway Co. is due for a dose of its own medicine next Tuesday, when it will apply to the North Western Licensing Authority for additional tonnage to replace horses. Numerous members of the C.M.U.A. will object. The applications affect bases at Littleborough, Rochdale, Burnley, Hollinwood, Oldham, Liverpool and Manchester, and will be heard at Manchester Town Hall at 10.30 a.m. on June 15.
S.A.R. Call for Bus Seats.
The South African Railways and Harbours Administration is calling for tenders for the supply of firstand third-class suburban-type tubularframed bus seats, the closing date for their receipt being August 9. Details of the general conditions of the tender may be obtained from the Department of Overseas Trade, 35, Old Queen Street, London, S.W.1, which is prepared to furnish the names of United Kingdom merchant houses with local connections, as direct representation is essential.
Shipping Guide for Hauliers.
The following is the number of ships arriving at the London docks, wharves and jetties named, from June 11-19 inclusive :—Docics : King George V. 5; Royal Albert, 10; Royal Victoria, 4; Surrey Commercial, 8; West India, 3; South West India, 2; Tilbury, 8; Tilbury Stage, 5; MillwalI, 5; Royal, 1; London, 2. WHARVES: Hay's, 7; Middleton's, I; Butler's, 2. Tilbury Jetty, I. Regent's Canal, 1.
Another Convert to the Converter.
West Monmouthshire Omnibus Board has recently placed an order for its first Leyland bus with hydraulic transmission, which, in keeping with the rest of its fleet, will be a singledecker. Of the 91 municipalities in Great Britain operating motorbuses, we learn that 33 of•them now use Leyland buses with this class of transmission.
Overseas Buyers of Steamers.
Amongst export orders recently received by the Sentinel Waggon Works (1936), Ltd., Shrewsbury, is one from the Griffin Engineering Co., of South Africa, for six special heavy-duty sixwheeled tippers, two six-wheelers and two four-wheelers, and another from Turkey for a four-wheeled tipper.
Widening the London-Oxford Road.
A new layout, consisting of dual carriageways; cycle tracks and footpaths, has been adopted for the LondonOxford road, at Hayes, Middlesex. The cost is estimated at neairly £80,000.
Each of the dual carriageways will be 27 ft. wide, and, for the benefit of the cyclists who work at the factories in the district, the cycle tracks will be constructed to the maximum width of 9 ft. The scheme is the first part of a comprehensive plan for modernizing between Southall and Uxbridge.
TENDERS OF INTEREST TO HAULIERS.
MENDERS are invited by the following (latest dates given in parentheses):— Kent °minty Mental Hospital for 1,600 tons ST steam coal, 600 tons of house coal, 52 tons of bakers' coal, 3 tons of anthracite nuts, 1,500 tons of best gas coke. Apply to Clerk and steward, Banning Mental Hospital, near Maidstone. (June 19.) Hetnsworth u.n.o. for tarred slag, tarred limm stone, crnshed and washed quartzite, sand, ?.ement, etc. Apply to Mr. A. Wright, r.n.c. Iternsworth, near Pontefract (June 24.) Great Yarmouth T.C. for approximately 1,000 tons of house curd, 1,000 tons of steam coal, 50 tons of -Welsh smokeless coal, 10' tons of anthracite, 1.100 tons of coke, for 12 months from July 15, 1937. Apply to borough enginmer's office, Town Hall, Great Yarmouth. (June 23.) CedeliesIer E.C. for coal and coke. Apply to Mr. J. Cockney, 3, Trinity Street, Colchester (June 14.1 .
Southempton Inc steam coal, cobbles and coke. Ann)y to Civic Centre, Southanipton. (June 16.)